Saturday, June 30, 2012

As GE-13 approaches, guess which UMNO person is the most worried man on earth, or at least has shown stress through all too frequent public statements?

No, it's not Najib, nor Zahid Hamidi, nor KJ, nor Muhyiddin, nor Hishamuddin, where perhaps the last two are far too thick to know their fate, thus may not worry at all wakakaka, though I heard Hisham has been advised to move from his current federal constituency of Sembrong where 40% of the voters are Chinese.

Politically accident-prone, the Home Minister has a natural talent in offending the Chinese and Indians, so even thick-skull him would have realized by now that the Chinese and Indians won't be too fond of him. And he has correctly assessed, no, more probably advised (as he is far too stupid to think for himself), that he'll be stuffed in Sembrong in the next general election - for more, read The Malaysian Insider’s (TMI)'sIn Johor, Chinese set to snub BN in polls.

The most worried UMNO person is Dr Mahathir who has in the last few days become more and more strident, making TMI headlines in a fashion not unlike the repetitive shouting of a Star newspaper boy selling early morning editions in market places or road junctions (like kaytee did aeons ago in good olde Penang, wakakaka).

And we should ask him why after 52 years of Independence, our every day lives, thoughts and especially politics have been about race, bearing in mind he was PM during a hefty half of those 52 years. We should also ask him what have been his contributions towards such a race-conscious Malaysian society.

Most Chinese Malaysians (with exceptions of some younger ones) prefer to stay out of the spotlight, not so much to carma (cari makan – they leave that to MCA and Gerakan politicians wakakaka) but to seek an independent and unimpeded living with the minimum of government interference.

The Chinese would probably appeal:

“Leave us alone to conduct our business and seek high quality education for our children – just do not impose more and more barriers, impediments and unjust quotas to restrict our business practice and educational pursuit.”

But alas, every political party, especially PAS, UMNO and PKR are hopefully investing in the Chinese political blue chips because their voting power (despite the gerrymandering and their only 30-ish% presence in most mixed constituencies) will be quite significant and perhaps even crucial in 60 to 70 federal constituencies, making them into The Reluctant Ones, who will be deeply hated by the losing side wakakaka.

Probably the only party which doesn't give two sh*ts about Chinese support is HRP because they know they won't get it, wakakaka. These HRP guys dream of whacking Dr Jeya in Sungai Siput and Dr Rama in Batu Kawan, reminding me of the Indian story of the 3 baskets of crabs wakakaka.

But poor Dr Mahathir is not only worried about the coming voting landscape but deeply resents it. If there is one thing that deeply offends and annoys Dr Mahathir, it's the thought of Chinese being in a superior position to Malays in any field or in a situation where they (the Chinese) can affect the political outcome for Malays, particularly UMNO.

After years of observation of him, his statements, actions, etc, I suspect he just can't stand the very picture of, say, more Chinese millionaires than Malay ones, more Chinese doctors, engineers, dentists, graduates, you-name-it than Malay equivalents, so on so forth.

I'm not so sure whether one could call him a racist, when we consider his feelings (if we step into his shoes) have been that Malays, being the majority in their own country called Persekutuan Tanah Melayu, should rightfully (in terms of numbers and heritage) be the majority in each and every Malaysian sectors of ownership or profession.

Thus if there are 3 Chinese millionaires (and he is not against them per se), then there must be 6 to 7 Malay millionaires, and with that attitude or belief carried as a grievance on his shoulders like two humongous chips, he had thus set his policies when he was PM. I believe he is still very emotionally governed by this belief.

Mind, he is not so concerned about the ethnic percentages in the civil service, police, armed forces and several hallowed departments.

Yet, king makers or not, Dr Mahathir had on a number of occasions admitted it was Chinese support which got him over the line in 1999, though he has now somehow twisted this admittance by asserting that the 1999 support, where Lim Kit Siang and Karpal Singh lost their seats, was because the Chinese, in not voting for their own people (like Karpal Singh, yes, Bhai's real name is Kar Pah Sing) had believed they would benefit in doing so, that was, abandoning their own people like dear old Bhai.

Mind you, all this while I had thought the 1999 Chinese abandonment of DAP was due to bloody stupid arrogant PAS who frightened the shit out of them, and which in turn resulted in DAP copping it sweet because of the latter's association with the blood-red Moon through the stupid Barisan Alternatif of 1999.

Today he decided to ratchet up the insult against the Chinese (and Indians) real kau kau, in his by-now standard statements of sheer denial where he put the blame for his faults on the Chinese and Indians, such as Chinese and Indians still talking about themselves, their rights and their privileges, and not just about Bumiputeras.

Then he preposterously claimed that the UMNO government has found that Malaysians are still segregated and that they tried to do something about it but there are objections, presumably from Chinese and Indians.

I'm just amazed by Dr Mahathir's 'creative' memories, his version of history (especially about the period of his 25 years as PM), and his twisted logic.

Chinese and Indians are still talking about their rights and privileges is because they have very few and certainly very much less than even some recent 'new' Malaysians who obtained citizenship just after a couple of weeks residency here.

And then, did it help when DPM Muhyiddin talked about him being a Malay first and a Malaysian only second, a publicly affirmation supported by UMNO's mouthpieces including leading journalists-editors like Kadir Jasin who told us pointedly why he wish to remain a Malay.

Wakakaka, kaytee responded to Pak Kadir why unlike him I wish to remain a Malaysian. I don't suppose Dr Mahathir would want to mention this, a Chinese wishing to be recognized as a Malaysian rather than a Chinese, assuming for one second he was even aware of my letter in CPI to Pak Kadir.

And the greatest insult is that after umpteen generations here, with many Chinese and Indians serving in the Police and Armed Forces, where a number were awarded the SP and PGB, they and their children are still considered less patriotic than The Chosen Ones or even The 'New' Malaysians, and to Dr Mahathir, it's a PRIVILEGE for these non-Malays to retain their racial identities - and just who do think forced those non-Malays into their respective psychological ethnic ghetto?

He has of course conveniently failed to mention the regular insults against non-Malays by his BTN-ized civil servants and teachers who would constantly, with the help of specially written books, remind many of us we are children of dogs or prostitutes rather than Malaysians, and even perpetuations of violence by the UMNO police and UMNO MACC.

As I said, sadly Dr Mahathir has in recent times acquired an amazingly twisted and selective memory because he has obviously forgotten that it was his administration which forced Chinese and Indians to remind themselves that they are Chinese and Indians in their kad pengenalan, borang-borang kerajaan Malaysian, and in their limited quota into universities and non-admittance into UiTM, etc.

It was also Dr Mahathir who stated recently that it is still premature for Malaysians to assume a non-ethnic identity like Bangsa Malaysia.

And now he conveniently makes the victims of his socio-political-educational-economic divisions of Malaysians the culprits and perpetrators of his policies.

Memang Dr Mahathir adalah seorang Melayu yang mudah lupa. But on second thoughts, really, is he the mudah lupa type?

In the end he revealed his hands, why he has been so stressed and strident, when he publicly slapped the wrist of Marina Mahathir, albeit a very light tap only but nonetheless an amazing unprecedented chiding of his daughter in public.

He warns Marina to steer clear of Bersih because her associations with the NGO, especially its sweet leader, Ambiga Sreenevasan, who has been repetitively threatened, reviled, cursed, mooned and recently 'hung' by UMNO warriors, would hurt the political prospective of his son, Mukhriz - for more see also Dr M backs Mukhriz as next Kedah MB and my January post Next MB of Kedah.

So in the end, we discover that Dr Mahathir's relentless campaign particularly against the Chinese has been for dear Mukhriz, but in that, we have to read too that, despite our perception of him as an iconic force in UMNO, his powers have much waned, even in his once fortress of Kedah.

Where once he could, with a snap of his fingers, ensure Mukhriz's position as that State's next MB, he now realizes he has to work hard, very hard (and the best way would be the usual generous dosage of UMNO-style tongue lashing against the 'greedy arrogant and aggressive' Chinese), to give his son the image of a Heartland guardian and thus a fighting chance, not just against the political opposition but also against the internal opposition within UMNO.

Perhaps in this, the Chinese are indeed king makers, though a perverted surrogate form used by him for a wee bit of bashing as part of his campaign to make his son the next political king of Kedah.

Nat Tan had once served as Anwar Ibrahim’s private secretary and thus,
at that time, an anwarista wakakaka – not sure what he is today. Nat was the bloke who would
ask me (via comments in my posts) why I ‘hated’ PKR or Anwar, when I blogged
my usual, wakakaka.

Nat is also the same bloke recently described by Zaid Ibrahim as an effete snob for writing/talking cock, wakakaka, to wit, criticizing Zaid Ibrahim among others for changing political parties more than once. Zaid lambasted him as follows (extracts only):

In Nathaniel’s calculus, one has to be blindly loyal at the cost of one’s own principles to qualify as having integrity.There must be many Nazis that Nathaniel is proud of, seeing as they stood by Hitler to the bitter end. On the other hand, Sir Winston S Churchill must be a spineless party-hopper since he crossed from the Conservatives to the Liberals then back again.

Churchill had many qualities - some good, others bad - but lacking principle or integrity is not one of them.

Who is this pompous writer to go around with his own constructed “integrity-barometer” castigating others for lack of principle? If he wants to test his mettle and is willing to let others measure the level of integrity in his system, then I bid him welcome to the world of politics.

Just in case you may wonder what
Zaid had meant by ‘effete snob’, well, it means a range of things,
but I will attribute to Nat the mildest one, namely, an ‘over-refined elite’,
someone who is residing (intellectually if not physically) in an Ivory Tower –
a dreamer disconnected with reality or the real world wakakaka.

I have to confess
I like Nathaniel Tan, who writes at periodic intervals for Malaysiakini. He is
a nice earnest young man who is apparently sincere in the politics he believes
in, and in the man he reckons will deliver (on 916) ..... incidentally I share with him
some of his former beliefs BUT definitely, absolutely and irrevocably not his
latter - wakakaka.

Nathaniel used to
work for Anwar Ibrahim – I don’t know what’s that political relationship now
but you may bet he’s an Anwar Ibrahim supporter. He has just written for
Malaysiakini an article titled Sept 16: What will 'cornered animal' BN do?

The title itself
tells you where his political sympathies lie. To him, UMNO is the cornered animal just because
Anwar has been boasting about katak-fication,
whereas (again according to Nat) Anwar who fled to the Turkish Embassy had
merely dropped in for coffee at the ‘invitation’ of the Ambassador - wakakaka.

Sometimes I feel
sad that a bright young man like Nathaniel can be so easily bewitched by a
renowned snake oil salesman who will promise anyone anything so long as it
serves His Brahma-ic Majesty to ascend the political throne.

Mind you,
notwithstanding his bias for Anwar Ibrahim, Nathaniel wrote a number of truths
in his article. He reckons UMNO may be about to turn nasty towards Anwar
Ibrahim, and enumerated the various possibilities.

But he
overstretched himself when he alluded to the possibility of political
assassination. He wrote: Assassination,
in all honesty, is probably still a bargain as well. Yes, there will be a
massive uproar, Anwar will be martyred, and discontent will reach unprecedented
levels. Yet, at the end of the day, police investigations will be inconclusive,
Anwar will be gone, and Pakatan becomes eminently vulnerable.

I don’t believe
Malaysian politics would ever sink down to such a level ..... racial riots
(chop up a few Chinamen or Indians), yes ..... but political assassination of
an UMNO or former UMNO bloke, absolutely no ..... there is a line drawn in the
sands of the heartland that won’t ever forgive the person responsible for that.
The assassin might as well politically assassinate himself.

Incidentally, Nat is the scion of
a well-to-do family where he was known to be picky about food, as once
revealed by his ex girl friend, Soon Li Tsin. In July 2007 when he was confined
by the police for a couple of days, his GF was allowed to visit him in the cell
with some food (probably a local dish), but he asked her instead for gourmet sandwiches wakakaka.

Gourmet sandwiches ;-) hmmm, maybe he was living up to his 'effete snob' image, several years before Zaid dug into him.

However, Nat recorded a black mark in his Malaysiakini’s article for advocating and rationalizing Anwar’s frog-ology, where I wrote as follows:

... towards the end
of his article, Nathaniel put in his bid for Anwar Ibrahim. He wrote
appealingly: One controversial
option to forestall any such drastic measures by the powers-that-be is for Malaysians to push for a change of
government – either by crossovers, or calling for a snap general
election (a potential last resort for BN, which is good for democracy, but
unlikely to forestall the ruling coalition's demise).

In other words,
Nathaniel was justifying and asking the public to support the insidious
political frog-hunting which Anwar had successfully demonstrated as his specialty
in Sabah in 1994, when he turned Pairin from democratically elected CM into
opposition leader with just a few croaks, yes, that disgraceful deformasi subversion of the
ballot box to seize power via the grubby back door.

He apologetically
rationalized (attempting to fool his own conscience and values): While less than ideal, these remain
some of the few ways we can avoid a descent into chaos and desperation within
BN, and by extension within Malaysia.

And before I end,
a word from Anwar Ibrahim’s favourite author who had, in Anwar’s own words,
succoured him while he was in prison:

... Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine
ear, and chastise with the valour of my tongue all that impedes thee from the
golden round ...
(Macbeth 1.5.25-28)

Macbeth & Lady MacBeth

We are told that
the ambitious Lady Macbeth (who wants to be Queen) said the above to persuade
her husband to ‘rise above
his goodness and accept her evil ways’ if he wanted to succeed.

In Netto's Malaysiakini article The link between Anwar and Dickens he unbelievably made a preposterous comparison between Charles Dickens as the supreme artist of democracy and our DefectiveDefacto Anwar Ibrahim.

There's nothing wrong in Netto’s promotion
of Anwar per se as we all promote someone we like (like kaytee does for Karpal Singh
wakakaka) or attack someone we dislike (like kaytee does on Anwar Ibrahim
wakakaka).

But Terence
Netto exceeded the bounds of rational belief in the above mentioned
Malaysiakini article, where he wrote the following in praise of Anwar:

You only have to give him a
pedestal and this evangelist for democracy will use it to espouse the themes of
freedom and equality with an ardor that is comparable to the ferocity Dickens
displayed in attacking their lack in English institutions of the 19th century …

Evangelist for democracy? And dear
Terence, what democratic message did
your Anwar Ibrahim send to us when he attempted to seize government with his
shameless 916 tomfoolery?

Apart from a wrong choice of word
in ‘evangelist’ (which those religious hounds might exploit to Anwar's
disadvantage) I have only three words, all starting with ‘P’, to describe
Netto’s adulation of Anwar Ibrahim as a paragon of democracy, namely:

Poppycock, preposterous &
pordah.

Evangelist for democracy?
Wakakaka!

What drew Nat Tan into his current criticism of Netto has been the latter's latest piece indirectly supporting Anwar – and what do I mean by ‘indirectly’?

Given the symbiotic relationship between Anwar and
his darling boy where it's virtually impossible to separate their individualities, I opine that
Netto’s article was in support of darling boy because it was a chastisement of
forces on the opposite side to the blue-eye boy, and thus by kaytee's extrapolation, an indirect support of Anwar.

However, he has been slow to recognise as the PKR leader of
a state regarded as a jewel in the federal crown that politics is also about
providing opportunities, rewarding loyalties and managing expectations of the
party faithful.

Oblivious of these aspects of his role as MB, he has courted
trouble with sections of the party - mainly ex-Umno members - whose 10 years
(1998-2008) in the political wilderness before the Selangor government was
captured by a PKR-led opposition has had them ravening for whatever rewards
were to be had.

“… politics is also about providing opportunities, rewarding
loyalties ..... of the party faithful”?

“… he has courted trouble
with sections of the party - mainly ex-Umno members - ..... ravening for whatever rewards were to be had …”?

My god, what are you saying, my dear Terence?

As if that was not bad enough, Netto then went on to
criticise Khalid’s political secretary, Faekah Husin, the target of PKR’s inner
coterie, for notcultivating those in the party who would be crucial to the
fulfilment of her (alleged) political ambitions.

Now, would I be correct in saying that, according to Netto, Sweetie doesn’t given a rat ass f**k about, to use a Penang term, cheet hor ch’ooi (wiping the Tiger’s mouth with fat, meaning 'greasing people's palms').

If my assumption is correct, then kudos to this clean and
incorruptible sweetheart.

Eight PKR Youth members may be charged
in court next Tuesday over the display a number of photographs and an effigy of
slain Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu on their cars.

The eight - from Perak, Terengganu and
Sarawak - were arrested on April 7, which was polling day, when their cars were
making the rounds in the Bukit Gantang parliamentary constituency.One of the cars had a effigy of a mock
coffin tied to the roof, plastered with pictures of Altantuya, Prime Minister
Najib Abdul Razak and his wife, Rosmah Mansor.

MKINI photo

Then there was Tian Chua's creative and highly talented photo-shopped 'Paris dinner for three' photo.

Poor Altantuyaa, but I really marvel at PKR's relentless effort in its G.A.N [Gerakan Anti Najib] campaign which incidentally started when Najib was still the DPM and occupying someone's (rightful?) position wakakaka. G.A.N was to remove Najib from impeding someone.

In fact, if I recall correctly, that a certain someone even launched a court case to get back his old/previous DPM appointment.

But alas, the spoilsport Court ruled against his case, and thus denied him a victorious return to UMNO - tsk, tsk, sayang aje. I had posted this on 08 March 2010 in Federal Court ruling - black yesterday, white today.In case you can't recall that court case, I wrote about the court declaring Anwar's dismissal as DPMis lawful because according to our marvellous judiciary, the king, as a constitutional monarch, was required to act in accordance with the advice of the prime minister, ...

… while a mere month prior to this (yes, just around 30 days), the very same three judges who were also on the appeals bench to hear Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin’s appeal against the unconstitutional sacking of him as the MB of Perak ..... by the Sultan of Perak, ruled that it was not necessary for a vote of confidence to be done in the state assembly as the Sultan can conduct his own inquiry to determine which party or coalition has the majority. [...]

Either they were of a most forgetful nature (and to f* with stare decisis) or we could quote George Orwell who wrote in Animal Farm (Chapter 2, pg 11), that“Squealer could turn black into white” wakakaka.

Anyway, apart from our most remarkable judiciary, Anwar did sue to get back into UMNO and specifically his old party appointment of him as the DPM. But alas, he failed and thus Najib was safe, at least for a while.

But the fighting spirit of PKR and G.A.N supporters have not diminished an iota. I saw this in the comments section in Malaysia-Today which dismissed the findings of the French police investigation as per the following:

As I journey through the darkness of cold oblivionBorne on the back of Shava to meet his masterAssigned to Samsara by cruel nefarious forcesWhich ended my karmic forces violently, abruptly

In my odyssey, wandering by the woeful AcheronWas there a time when I had felt soothing voicesTo comfort me amidst my lonely pains and fearsYes I do, only from the One who is fragrant Pure

But the loudest noises are they calling for ‘justice’Though, I smile cynically, ‘twas not meant for meTheir shrill proclamations & belated outrage (sigh)Startled even great Gujir Tngri and the 77 siqar

Grandstanding acrobatics, their excuse to dispenseWith all norms, purportedly all for me (wry smile)I must confess I view with scepticism and distasteAs I would professional chest-pounding mourners

By sheer speed of their computation of advantageWhat to extract, exploit, extricate from my nameSqueezing the very last speck of desiccated bloodFrom my hyper cold shattered fragments of bones

Eager hands raided the ossuary for me to be laidAs stepping stones for the progress of a demigodOn Ardha-Matanga, 4 tasks & seven white trunksSaluting Brahma, walking to Amarawati by a lake

As the pseudo-pious pirouetting pachyderm crushesWhat little good left of my name, what trust existsIn my family’s hope for requital of my cruel murderI realize those raucous battle cries were not for me

Summoned by conjured justice to now serve FenrirTo break asunder Gleipnir but only with my deathRe-evoked, for my soul to be murdered a 2nd timeTo satiate the burning thirst of Angrboda’s 1st child

Poor Altantuyaa - no one* really cares about you.

* with the exceptions of Susan Loone and Lucia Lai

Poor PKR/G.A.N supporters - no one* really understands how you all feel, not about Altantuyaa of course, but about the setback for the G.A.N campaign. Denial is all left for you.

Sunday, June 24, 2012

One of BN’s
problems has been the appointment of ministers, not so much in key ministries
but in ensuring at least a ministerial position for each and every component
party in the alliance (I borrowed the word ‘alliance’ from BN’s predecessor
Perikatan to distinguish it from the Pakatan ‘coalition).

This is the
principal reason why the Malaysian government cabinet has been embarrassingly
over bloated.

And as part of
the PM’s ang pow-ish largesse, even deputy ministers are created, so as to
convince those appointed to these positions that they are ministers but
disguising the reality they are just parliamentary permanent secretaries and not part of the cabinet proper. Mostly, they are
over glorified assistants to the real ministers and, I suspect wakakaka, spent most of
their time idling in lounge rooms outside their respective bosses’ office,
eating publicly funded kueh muehs, coffee and tea, and sometimes even heavy
lunches of typical but expensively catered Malaysian fare.

When I read
Selana Tay’s article Pakatan’s ‘shadow cabinet’ list in Free Malaysian Today, I thought it (the Pakatan shadow cabinet) was a Kafkaesque joke, with the potential for Pakatan to outdo BN in the numbers department. 15 ministries including shared deputy prime minister-ships were listed, with each having at least 3 if not more names, making a total of no less than 45 and probably exceeding 60. WTF!

Sweetie Selena
admitted that her list has been compiled from a combination of:

(a) discussions with a Pakatan MP who wished to remain anonymous but who was probably from PKR, and as usual, by suggesting some key nominees in the secret list, was pre-empting their supposed allies from choice ministries wakakaka,

(b) observations from the performances and statements of Pakatan MPS and most strangely, ADUNs during their debates in the Parliament or State Legislative Assemblies. And how the f* would an ADUN be making federal level type policies?, and

(c) personal conversations with the shadow ministers*, their friends or their acquaintances, where in the first place the former (shadow ministers*, other than the PM-designate) don’t exist and the opinions of the last two would be more hopeful and interest-centred rather than credible or reliable.* 14 Jan 2013 addendum - some months later, while re-reading the same FMT news article when penning another post Psychedelic psychic power?, I found mention of 'shadow ministers' strangely missing from it, wakakaka

No, I won’t hold much
store by the list that Sweetie has written, perhaps more to mitigate against
the BN sting that Pakatan is still incapable of coming up with a shadow cabinet
than it be a genuine secret Pakatan plan.

That’s right, it’s
not official at all, though we know a particular PKR leader (not Anwar) wakakaka has a habit of
announcing policies unilaterally on behalf of Pakatan (minus any consultation with PAS or DAP) where one can see those unilateral policies had been his wet dreams, and no doubt this one (list of shadow
cabinet nominees) would be just another.

Anyway,
continuing with Sweetie’s article - for a start, according to Article 43 of the
Malaysian Constitution, ADUNs who are also MP cannot have it both ways, that
is, by continuing to be ADUNs (and even MBs or CMs or State Exco members) while
becoming federal ministers or deputy ministers. They have to choose between being a federal minister
(or deputy minister) or an ADUN.

Thus, if Lim Guan
Eng wants to continue being CM of Penang, and most Penangites want him to thus I am confident he will be re-elected in the next state election to be again, then he can’t be appointed as a federal minister (assuming Pakatan takes Putrajaya).

He can of course be CM of Penang as well as an ordinary federal MP in which case he can and will serve in both State and Federal Parliaments, but not as a federal minister. On the other hand, if he wants to be a federal minister, then he can kiss goodbye to his CM job and Ayer Putih ADUN position.

…. assuming he is
not back/front/side-stabbed wakakaka, Khalid Ibrahim (of Selangor) who like Lim
GE has to decide whether he wants to be a federal minister or MB of a state –
maybe PKR has already planned for one of the inner coterie like the world-renowned
Apcet II destroyer Saifuddin Nasution wakakaka to
be MB of that important State ...

… and f* that
Azizan Abdul Razak of Kedah who I doubt will be MB of Kedah again after the next
rice-state election.

I also wonder why
Sweetie has Pak Haji Hadi Awang as one of the DPMs? Didn’t Pak Haji say he was
retiring? Shouldn't it be updated to Mat Sabu?

As I wrote at the
very beginning, if indeed Sweetie’s list comes true, hypothetically of course (as
it’s more of someone’s wet dream wakakaka), then Pakatan will have fallen into
the same trap as BN which ‘rewards’ the alliance’s good boys with all sorts of ministerial
positions hence its multitude of ministries, with the potential for a Pakatan government to have a staggering 50 to 60 ministers and deputy ministers.

This will be bloody f* gross, a manmanlai-ish betrayal of promises to the rakyat, and totally unacceptable. It will be a ridiculous situation based on nothing more than Pakatan’s inability to truly
‘share’ out the ministries with reasonable faith and trust in its coalition
partners and their competencies.

Additionally, I
need to point out some equally ridiculous proposals, such as:

(a) Nizar
Jamaluddin (PAS, Bukit Gantang MP) as one of the trio to the Finance Ministry,
Since when has Nizar shown his financial-economic credentials at federal level?

This would be one
of those undesired BN-style approach to appeasing each of the 3 coalition
partners where the Finance ministry will be shared out among Tony Pua (DAP),
Rafizi Ramli (PKR) and our dear Nizar Jamaluddin who would be better placed as
the MB of a key state like Perak or, if he wants to be a federal minister, in
some important ministry which can exploit his engineering background like, say, the Transport
or Work Ministry.

(b) the Education
Ministry was once one of UMNO’s key ministries because in earlier days, the
Education Minister would enjoy powerful connections with the Malay grass roots
through the village and town Malay teachers in each and every state (at least
in peninsula Malaysia) and thus influence with the UMNO Divisional leaders. It was a ministerial
position which was absolutely vital to every UMNO aspirant for the PM’s position, where we saw
Education Ministers like Dr Mahathir, Musa Hitam, Anwar Ibrahim, Hishamuddin, etc, not that many of them succeeded in becoming PM wakakaka.

But in our new
brave but bloody avaricious world, where everyone wants to be mucho rich el pronto, f* the Education
Ministry and grass roots, and bring on the Finance one or any ministries which are likely to
control and manage large projects and contracts like PKFZ, submarines, fighter
or transport aeroplanes and BNM gambling and the potential for secret high financial 'ops', wakakaka.

So I wasn’t in
the least surprised to read in Sweetie Selena’s article that the proposed
people for the once-powerful but now perceived-as-ordinary and not-so-lucrative
Education Ministry will, under a Pakatan government, be headed (not ‘helmed’
please wakakaka) by Dzulkefly Ahmad (PAS) or S Kulasegaran (DAP) or Chong Eng
(DAP).

What? No PKR
nominee? And two DAP members? Wakakaka, it’s so f* obvious that it stands out like
the proverbial dog’s balls cow head - 'thunderous applause' please, wakakaka.

Of course by
contrast, guess who will be in charge of the very powerful but dangerous deadly and
draconian Minister of Home Affairs? Wakakaka

Mind you,
notwithstanding the dirty manipulative Machiavellian manoeuvrings I believe the
Education Ministry will have to be deemed as a very important ministry, not so
much for the UMNO-style personal political interests of the minister, but for the
major overhaul of an utter mess of our pitiful education system so as to ensure our
Youths may have a decent and useful education that can contribute to our nation's intellectual, financial-economic, business-commercial, technological, environment and social future.

I personally
believe there is not one current Pakatan MP who has the educational know-how to
deal with insightful policy developments to mitigate against the mountain heap of sickening
selfish shit accumulated by UMNO’s political football-ing for the last 40
years.

I would like to
see a Pakatan government coopt Malaysians (or even former Malaysians) who are
renowned international educational experts, and perhaps even for such a
non-political expert to be appointed as the future Education Minister via the senatorial backdoor, at least for a term to start the excavation of the
scatological mountain that is the Malaysian educational system today.

Next, look at the
proposed Foreign Minister(s) - Kamarudin Jaffar (PAS) (by the way, who is he?),
Lim Guan Eng (DAP) who isn’t exactly renowned as a foreign affairs expert or
has shown any inclination towards that portfolio, and Elizabeth Wong (PKR).

I opine that
apart from the Great One himself wakakaka the only other bloke who may serve as
a credible Foreign Minister is Lim Kit Siang, thus the father rather than the
son should have been nominated. Pakatan can still appoint him as one of the
DPMs if the coalition so believes he is worthy, though I reckon the DPM
position is far too overrated and an UMNO thing, and really not needed for Pakatan. Get rid of it and with that, remove
a potential bone of contention between PAS and PKR/DAP.

Now, my dearest
Eli whom I adore very much would be better placed in the Environment Ministry
as she has shown her admirable management of green issues in Selangor. I assume
her nomination indicates her move towards federal politics, but alas, the lack
of substantiated details in that ‘whispered’ list doesn’t tell us much.

Basically, I put
that ‘whispered’ list as nothing more than the wet dream of a PKR person where
he consigns (relegates rather than assigns) some undesired ‘allies’ like Lim GE to lesser
ministries while he grabs for himself a powerful one.

If Karpal Singh
is not, as I suspect, in his final political innings because of his age, I
would see him as the most suitable candidate for the Home Ministry. Karpal is a
man well versed with the law and of impeccable standing, and thus is unlikely
to misuse the frontline apparatus of that ministry (police, SB) and the draconian ISA to abuse the
rights of his opponents including those within Pakatan. But whoever, for such an
important ministry we must require a man of impeccable legal standing and
personal integrity, I repeat, a man of impeccable legal standing and personal
integrity.

To cut short my
ravings and ranting wakakaka, I believe the Pakatan shadow cabinet and if it
turns out to be the de jure cabinet post GE-13 (and please, no more of the ‘de
facto’ bullshit because ‘de facto’ implies the appointment is undemocratic
and dictatorial) should be seriously and
severely pared down.

Also, to
eliminate the embarrassment of a Pakatan government having too many ministers, not least by public perception, let’s get rid of those non-cabinet-member deputy
ministers and restore what they used to be, namely, parliamentary permanent secretaries, and f* the
personal aggrandizements of Pakatan leaders.

On this
fundamental principle of having a ‘lean and mean’ cabinet, it behoves the Pakatan
component parties to learn to have greater faith and trust in each other, in
other words, let’s have none of those bullshitting 3 people (PKR, PAS and DAP
or even PSM) in each ministry. Only one person may be appointed as a minister.

Pakatan shall of
course share out the ministries equitably (which may militate against some
still with UMNO ways, wakakaka). Also, the coalition needn’t have ministries in
the way UMNO currently has them, where some (two or even three?) can be
amalgamated into one.

The major
ministries including the PM’s position shall be shared out, for example (only
an example) as follows:

… where the
sharing out shall be one to PKR, next to PAS and then DAP (or in any other
sequential order). The ministers may be assisted by a parliamentary permanent
secretary.

Some
distinguished and respectable MPs who possess the correct skills could be appointed sideways as ambassadors and high
commissioners to only important nations like UN, Indonesia, Russia, USA, Japan,
India, China, Europe, leaving the professional civil servants to others.

Having 3 people,
one from each Pakatan component party, in a ministry is not only exactly like BN but worse, a sad reflection of distrust and lack of faith in the coalition partners. And if that is the sad case, then let's not have a coalition. Additionally, it will lead to a Pakatan
cabinet far more bloated (like a satiated leech) than the BN’s.

Then, the perceived
consigning of more than one member from a component ally to a less powerful
ministry (as indicated in that 'whispered' list) shows one’s dislike of that component party and a bloody nasty Machiavellian
manipulative manoeuvring, not unlike the EC’s dirty strategy of sardine-zing
Pakatan supporters into one humongous giant federal constituency of 120,000 like Kapar in
disgraceful contrast to the only 6,000 strong pro UMNO federal constituency of
Putrajaya

Let’s have none
of those UMNO tactics please.

And finally but not least, Pakatan must publicly announce the shadow cabinet.

Maybe he hasn't forgiven Penangites for the MCA's 1969 and 2008 drubbing but he has now presented himself as an enemy of Penang and Penangites..

***MKINI - Dr M: Look East Policy still relevant for next 30 yearsMandarin-language activists needn't get excited as Tun has advocated having only Japanese & Korean, but definitely not Chinese, universities in Malaysia. Presumably the Japanese and Korean languages may also foster greater integration among Malaysians?***MKINI - RTM prerecorded broadcast open to manipulationPAS secretary-general Mustafa Ali expressed concerns over RTM's limiting Pakatan air time to only pre-recorded party manifestos will render Pakatan's message to being edited and distorted, like for example:

Pakatan is for INequality, multiracialism and the people's politicians' interests.

Friday, June 22, 2012

Prior to and up to
the early 16th Century, people in Western Europe were amazed,
annoyed and angry with the Pope and his Catholic Church for selling
‘indulgences’. But what was such an ‘indulgence’?

Apparently, the Catholic Church's ‘indulgence’ at that time was a religious pardon for the purchaser from all his sins.

Thus, an ‘indulgence’
released a sinner from bearing the spiritual burden of all his or her naughty thoughts and misdeeds. The more
money one paid, the more sins were pardoned, until there was a belief that
sinners could buy their way into becoming a saint and thus allowed automatic
entry into heaven

Indulgences - what a convenient and marvellous thing – absolutely
far far superior to our Malaysian mandi bunga, a ritual of washing one’s head with a mixture
of perfumed water containing seven types of flowers, kaffir lime leaves and
lime, so as to cleanse oneself (of sins?) and remove one’s bad luck wakakaka.

Pity we can’t enjoy that nowadays or kaytee will be the
first to purchase a huge allocation of ‘indulgences’, wakakaka.

But wait ….. maybe there is still hope, the existence of
such ‘indulgences’ in Malaysia, though alas, not for poor kaytee.

Free Malaysia Today (FMT)’sAnwar’s courtship with danger tells us about former MIC president Samy Vellu and his alleged acts of corruption. FMT argues that if Samy Vellu were to be found guilty of those accusations, then all those who stood alongside him and benefited from his patronage, namely MIC leaders, should be too, as they shared collective responsibility.

FMT then
went on:

Opposition
Leader Anwar Ibrahim is now purportedly in the midst of holding talks with
several MIC national and division leaders, hoping to entice them to cross over.

With most, if not all, MIC leaders at various levels sagging under the weight of their baggage, is it wise for the PKR supremo to be courting them?

The
opposition bloc’s main charge against BN is that the ruling coalition is
corrupt to the core but does it mean that by joining PKR one is absolved of
past sins?

Has it
become the party of political absolution and redemption or a convenient option
for those whose political fortunes have faded in their respective parties and
are looking for a new lease of life?

Even MCA
president Dr Chua Soi Lek expressed puzzlement as to how the supposed sinners
who leave BN and join the opposition can become overnight saints.

Overnight saints? Mucho ‘indulgences’ then, wakakaka.

I recall RPK once writing a piece that raised this same
question about Chua Jui Meng, once one of MCA top leaders and now a PKR Vice
President. In fact, Chua is PKR’s top bloke in Johor.

RPK has not only pointed out Chua’s ‘record’ as BN Health
Minister but also posted this.

But let’s ignore RPK lah. On the basis that Chua Jui Meng has been entrusted by none other than the Great One to spearhead PKR’s campaign in Johor, a state identified by Pakatan (not just PKR) as a vital election battle ground in GE-13, we have to accept that Chua JM, despite his not inconsiderable MCA background and what RPK has written about him, has no doubt been beatified and then canonized, and is now a saint, all thanks to the Great One who has already granted an ‘indulgence’ endorsement for lucky Chua, wakakaka.

On such political beatification or even canonization, wakakaka, I have read comments in my post The political assassination of Rafizi Ramli? at both my own blog and RPK’s Malaysia-Today, in which a certain party's supporters issued promise of overnight sainthood for Ong Tee Keat if he leaves MCA and joins Pakatan (presumably PKR) as per Chua Jui Meng’s example.

It’s wonderful that we have somehow inherited the legacy of ‘indulgences’
from Pope Leo X, the bloke who excommunicated Martin Luther because the latter
condemned the Pope and his men for granting ‘indulgences’.

Pope Leo X

But as reported in FMT, some spoilt sports have the brazen nerve to doubt the wisdom of our own Pope, by questioning the questionable calibre of MIC leaders on a potential quest to PKR.

Naughtily or rather blasphemously they asked of MIC anehs
and tambees:

… can they contribute the ingredients required
for a better Malaysia?

This is doubtful since these leaders have been
entrenched deep within the BN machine for years if not decades. […]

The opposition should be recruiting those who
can raise the bar of the political standard in this nation and not those who
are responsible for the benchmark being so low.

The logic is simple: one cannot improve the
game when the same players are retained.

Aiyoyo, what do you know about the faultless Great One –
please lah, read my previous post wakakaka.

Besides, didn't the Great One and his inner coterie also transmigrate from UMNO, bearing in mind of course that the Great One had luxuriated in UMNO
for 16 years with nary a word on reforms or corruption or the evils of UMNO
which he now broadcasts almost daily with great fervour.

But but but, those lesser mortals asked, what if there were to
be a hung parliament after GE-13 and the former MIC but by then ‘beatified’
(wakakaka) PKR MPs do another leap, but back into BN in that amazing fashion of the
Perak revolting revolving-door
reprobate, Nasarudin Hashim, from UMNO to PKR and back to UMNO.

They also moaned that the Great
One has not learned his
lesson from the outrageous examples of those erstwhile PKR 2008 MPs. Naturally they cried out: "Shouldn't it be a case of once bitten, twice shy?"

Hmmm, I think not, not with
an Immortal like manmanlai, who had shown us in more than one way that despite
being bitten, he has never been shy, wakakaka.

Besides, I
believe that if there were to be a hung parliament after GE-13, those
former MIC by then beatified PKR MPs may be crushed in the frenzied stampede across
to BN instead of being the first ones to jump, wakakaka.

Blessed be
Papa Leo X and his ‘indulgences’ for inspiring our own Malaysian version.

About Me

Just a bloke interested in the socio-political whatnots around the world, particularly those in Malaysia. Loves a laugh or/and story or two, or more, but loves civility and courtesy much more, especially in politics